Hispanic American Diversity

Hispanic American Diversity

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Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican and Mexican Americans all have much in common as well different when it comes to linguistic, political, social, religion, economical, and familial status. Many Hispanic cultures immigrate to America for our political way of life. Originally, America have not been very supportive of Hispanics immigrating into America, however tolerance of the different ethnic groups seems to be increasing. A goal for many Hispanic Americans is to let it be known that Hispanic communities are all the same.

Puerto Rico

Puerto Rican Americans have immigrated to America since the 1900’s. Woodrow Wilson signed a Jones Act which granted Puerto Ricans American citizenship. Many people get the linguistics confused when it comes to Hispanics. Puerto Ricans do not have their own language however they do speak proper Castilian Spanish, which comes from ancient Latin. The main difference between Spain and Puerto Rico (and other Hispanic American linguistics) is the pronunciation. Most schools in Puerto Rico study the English language, but Spanish remains their primary language. The knowledge of American society and Puerto Ricans has started “slang Spanish” known as “Spanglish”.

Puerto Ricans have very strong family values. Males tend to be head of household and women are responsible for the daily duties of the household. The men and women are very strong when it comes down to teaching their children about respect to the elderly and older siblings. Girls are usually brought up to be quiet compared to the boys who are taught to be aggressive. Unlike Americans, Puerto Ricans have many people in their families who are considered “immediate family”, where as Americans usually have the parents, siblings and grandparents as immediate family.

Most Puerto Ricans are Roman Catholics. Catholicism was Puerto Rico’s dominant religion for the past 400 years, with a small percentage of...